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What a great response to the Stylish Blogger Award! If you haven't looked at yesterday's post yet, check it out and discover some new bloggers. =) I had my first free acting class today at the Actors Workout Studio, and I had to show up for an interview at 9:45 and then stayed for class from 10:30-2. The class is based on the Meisner Technique and we did Repetition exercises where you look at the other actor, make a physical observation about them, and the two people repeat it over and over until eventually they talk about how they feel about the other actor. It sounds boring but some interesting things can happen -- TWO people cried. I was not one of them. Today's food was pretty boring - edamame and salad with roasted beets and another McDougall soup, this time split pea: It doesn't look like much but it's good. Yesterday I had a sweet potato that I roasted at 425 for about 45 minutes (cut off the ends, stab a few times with a knife, and put a pan below to ca...

I did it. I created the most delicious cookies this world has ever seen. I'm invited to a birthday party on Saturday but I don't know the birthday girl that well so I figured I don't need to bring a present. I want to bring something, though, so I decided to bake some cookies. And I'm not even joking, I think I came up with these in a dream last night. If you read other food blogs, you may have heard of peanut flour. I've seen it at Trader Joe's but never had a need to buy it. But then (in my dream) I had the fantastic idea to make peanut butter cookies using peanut flour instead of peanut butter! And I'm happy to say, you can use peanut flour instead of white or wheat flour in cookie with no adverse effects and extra delicious taste. Peanut flour is just made of peanuts, with most of the fat removed so it'll be a flour and not a butter. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 c peanut flour 1 c oats 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2-1 cup sugar 1/2 ...